- #Superpowered initiative protocol influence code
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#Superpowered initiative protocol influence code
Unfortunately, I have also hit the same roadblocks many others have seen simply because either companies can’t let go of their "proprietary" platform code or, more often than not, people just do not understand the difference between protocol and platform. I’ve been using it to help people understand for years. Collapse replies (4) Reply View in chronologyĪ great and excellent example using torrent as a protocol outside the platform. This is radically different than a consolidation approach. The protocol being discussed would facilitate non-centralized content (Tweets, photos, memes, gifs, video, polls, ect) distribution which could then be displayed by any compatible client or app, with each app providing its own formatting, filtering, curation and moderation. Any person (theoreticaly) can build a tracker, or build a new client, or share content with the network and there is no central gatekeeper or repository. The Torrent protocol does not rely on the Bittorrent software, or a central database hosted by Bittorrent. The goal here is to create a protocol that does not rely on central silos. It does not serve the end goal of the discussion of protocols. What you describe, an all in one app that can push posts to multiple social media feeds and condolidate siloed social media content, exists at least in part. So when Yahoo IM shutdown, The all in one app couldn’t maintain functionality. Moreover, they all relied on the central silo to work. If you didn’t have a Yahoo account, you couldn’t send Yahoo IM messages. So If you were talking to someone on AIM, you used the AIM Protocol with your aol/aim account (Which you could not make from the all in one app), and you couldn’t loop in a Google account on the AIM conversation. The all in one clients did a lot of back end lifting, and most if not all could only operate one protocol at a time.
#Superpowered initiative protocol influence series
Your example differs from the current discussion in a number of ways.ĪIM, ICQ, Yahoo IM Google IM, ect, in so much as they are protocols, represent a series of incompatible protocols. That details a variety of different ideas regarding how we might move to a world dominated by protocols, rather than just centralized, proprietary, siloed platforms.
#Superpowered initiative protocol influence free
Over the intervening years, I’ve been thinking, talking, and writing on this subject quite a bit, including the big paper I released with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech.
In that first post discussing it, I talked about two companies that I thought might benefit most from such an approach: Twitter and Reddit. Nearly five years ago, I first wrote about the idea of why protocols are a better approach than platforms for various internet platforms struggling with content moderation issues. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.
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